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Description

A recent addition to the armories of the Legiones Astartes, the Stormraven gunship is a versatile multi-role aircraft. It can act as an armored transport, dropship, and strike aircraft.
This aircraft is smaller than the larger and more common Thunderhawk gunship that the Legiones Astartes have used since the end of the Great Crusade. Thanks to its array of gas-dynamic control thrusters, the Stormraven is much more agile in flight than the Thunderhawk.
As a result of its impressive speed and maneuverability, the Stormraven can evade enemy fire and maneuver at full thrust through the spires in a hive city or a jungle-covered Death World, aided by its Space Marine crew’s skills and reaction times.
The role of the Stormraven Gunships differs from battle to battle. It varies depending on the personality of the force commander.
In most Space Marine Legions, Stormravens are used with their other transport vehicles, but a handful uses them for deploying Battle-Brothers to objectives, combining the swift orbital descent of the Drop Pod with the battlefield versatility of the Rhino or Razorback.
Its adamantium belly can accommodate twelve Power Armoured Space Marines that can be deployed via Grav-Chutes or charged out of the gunship when the assault ramp comes down. Alternatively, the Stormraven can carry up to six Assault Marines or six Terminators.
The Stormraven can also carry a Dreadnought in its rear cargo grapples — the smallest Space Marine aircraft able to do so. Yet to use the Stormraven as a mere transport would be to overlook its formidable array of weapons. The Stormraven’s firepower is comparable to Legion’s most potent land-based fighting vehicles and more than capable of wreaking untold devastation upon a deserving foe, regardless of its load-out.

History
The origins of the Stormraven are unknown to the Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicum. However, there are two different stories on the matter. One suggests that its Standard Template Construct (STC) was found by a Techmarine of the Dawn Angels Legion at the turn of the 31st millennium in a long-forgotten archive on Mars.
The other story advocates the Stormraven was the creation of the Tech-artisans of Deimos for the Silver Knights, the militant arm of the Orders Metallic’s Silver Order.

Whatever the truth, the Legiones Astartes need every weapon they can find, and the Space Marine Legions now field several Stormravens alongside their other aircraft.

Role
Stormraven gunships streak into battle with their weapons blazing, flak whipping around them as they rake the foe with bolts, blasts, and warheads. More akin to a flying tank than a conventional drop-ship, the Stormraven is the most versatile aircraft in the arsenal of the Adeptus Astartes.
Fast, maneuverable, resilient, boasting prodigious firepower and a substantial hull capacity, the Stormraven can perform many roles, but that of armed transport is foremost among its abilities. The gunship’s troop bay is spacious enough to accommodate even massive Centurion Warsuits or Jump Pack-wearing Assault Marines.
Stormraven's cargo grapples can haul a Dreadnought straight into battle, its turbine engines strong enough to hold the gunship aloft despite the considerable extra weight. However, this heavy gunship can compete toe-to-toe in dogfights with even the dedicated fighter craft of other intelligent races.

Thanks to its array of vectored thrusters, the Stormraven gunship is quite agile and can perform several high-speed maneuvers. Ground attack is well within its capabilities, for the Stormraven possesses a broad arsenal of anti-infantry and anti-armor firepower. It has proven capable of punching enemy aircraft out of the air, ferrying forces into white-hot war zones, or obliterating the foe with thunderous strafing runs.

Armament

The Stormraven is heavily armed and armored for an aircraft of its size. Its firepower can match or exceed the most potent Imperial main battle tanks. The Stormraven has been referenced as a flying Land Raider.

The Stormraven is armed with a set of hull-mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters, a Servitor-controlled, dorsal turret-mounted set of twin-linked Assault Cannons, and wing hardpoints capable of carrying up to four anti-armor Stormstrike Missiles.

The aircraft can further enhance its firepower by being outfitted with side-mounted Hurricane Bolters if its pilot wishes to block the aircraft’s flank access points.

The Stormraven can replace its hull-mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters with either a set of twin-linked Multi-Meltas or a single Typhoon Missile Launcher. The craft’s dorsal turret-mounted weapons can be replaced with either twin-linked Plasma Cannons or a pair of twin-linked Lascannons.

Stormravens belonging to the Dawn Angels Legion replace their Stormstrike Missiles with their Dawnstrike Missiles, and the Silver Knights replace them with their Mindstrike Missiles.

All Stormraven gunships are equipped with armored ceramite plating and can be further upgraded with a Searchlight, Extra Armour Plating, and a locator beacon.

The Stormravens employed by the Silver Knights are equipped with Aegis armor plating. This enhances the craft’s protection against the psychic assaults of daemons and other Warp entities by inscribing protective inscriptions onto the aircraft’s surface.

Silver Knight Stormravens may be further enhanced with Warp Stabilization Fields, Truesilver Armour plating, a Teleport Homer, and their Heavy Bolters may be loaded with Psybolt Ammunition.

Wargear
A standard Stormraven Gunship is armed and equipped with:

Twin-linked Assault Cannons
Twin-linked Heavy Bolters
Stormstrike Missile Launcher
Armoured Ceramite Plating
Machine Spirit (artificial intelligence)
A Stormraven Gunship may replace its hull turret-mounted twin-linked Assault Cannons with any of the following:

Twin-linked Plasma Cannons
Twin-linked Lascannons
A Stormraven Gunship may replace its hull-mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters with any of the following:

Twin-linked Multi-Meltas
Typhoon Missile Launcher
A Stormraven Gunship may replace its side access doors with any of the following:

Hurricane Bolters
A Stormraven Gunship armed with a Typhoon Missile Launcher may be equipped with the following missiles:

Frag Missiles
Krak Missiles
A Stormraven Gunship may take the following vehicle equipment:

Searchlight
Extra Armour Plating

Locator Beacon

model by robertmuggeridge

Description

A recent addition to the armories of the Legiones Astartes, the Stormraven gunship is a versatile multi-role aircraft. It can act as an armored transport, dropship, and strike aircraft.
This aircraft is smaller than the larger and more common Thunderhawk gunship that the Legiones Astartes have used since the end of the Great Crusade. Thanks to its array of gas-dynamic control thrusters, the Stormraven is much more agile in flight than the Thunderhawk.
As a result of its impressive speed and maneuverability, the Stormraven can evade enemy fire and maneuver at full thrust through the spires in a hive city or a jungle-covered Death World, aided by its Space Marine crew’s skills and reaction times.
The role of the Stormraven Gunships differs from battle to battle. It varies depending on the personality of the force commander.
In most Space Marine Legions, Stormravens are used with their other transport vehicles, but a handful uses them for deploying Battle-Brothers to objectives, combining the swift orbital descent of the Drop Pod with the battlefield versatility of the Rhino or Razorback.
Its adamantium belly can accommodate twelve Power Armoured Space Marines that can be deployed via Grav-Chutes or charged out of the gunship when the assault ramp comes down. Alternatively, the Stormraven can carry up to six Assault Marines or six Terminators.
The Stormraven can also carry a Dreadnought in its rear cargo grapples — the smallest Space Marine aircraft able to do so. Yet to use the Stormraven as a mere transport would be to overlook its formidable array of weapons. The Stormraven’s firepower is comparable to Legion’s most potent land-based fighting vehicles and more than capable of wreaking untold devastation upon a deserving foe, regardless of its load-out.

History
The origins of the Stormraven are unknown to the Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicum. However, there are two different stories on the matter. One suggests that its Standard Template Construct (STC) was found by a Techmarine of the Dawn Angels Legion at the turn of the 31st millennium in a long-forgotten archive on Mars.
The other story advocates the Stormraven was the creation of the Tech-artisans of Deimos for the Silver Knights, the militant arm of the Orders Metallic’s Silver Order.

Whatever the truth, the Legiones Astartes need every weapon they can find, and the Space Marine Legions now field several Stormravens alongside their other aircraft.

Role
Stormraven gunships streak into battle with their weapons blazing, flak whipping around them as they rake the foe with bolts, blasts, and warheads. More akin to a flying tank than a conventional drop-ship, the Stormraven is the most versatile aircraft in the arsenal of the Adeptus Astartes.
Fast, maneuverable, resilient, boasting prodigious firepower and a substantial hull capacity, the Stormraven can perform many roles, but that of armed transport is foremost among its abilities. The gunship’s troop bay is spacious enough to accommodate even massive Centurion Warsuits or Jump Pack-wearing Assault Marines.
Stormraven's cargo grapples can haul a Dreadnought straight into battle, its turbine engines strong enough to hold the gunship aloft despite the considerable extra weight. However, this heavy gunship can compete toe-to-toe in dogfights with even the dedicated fighter craft of other intelligent races.

Thanks to its array of vectored thrusters, the Stormraven gunship is quite agile and can perform several high-speed maneuvers. Ground attack is well within its capabilities, for the Stormraven possesses a broad arsenal of anti-infantry and anti-armor firepower. It has proven capable of punching enemy aircraft out of the air, ferrying forces into white-hot war zones, or obliterating the foe with thunderous strafing runs.

Armament

The Stormraven is heavily armed and armored for an aircraft of its size. Its firepower can match or exceed the most potent Imperial main battle tanks. The Stormraven has been referenced as a flying Land Raider.

The Stormraven is armed with a set of hull-mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters, a Servitor-controlled, dorsal turret-mounted set of twin-linked Assault Cannons, and wing hardpoints capable of carrying up to four anti-armor Stormstrike Missiles.

The aircraft can further enhance its firepower by being outfitted with side-mounted Hurricane Bolters if its pilot wishes to block the aircraft’s flank access points.

The Stormraven can replace its hull-mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters with either a set of twin-linked Multi-Meltas or a single Typhoon Missile Launcher. The craft’s dorsal turret-mounted weapons can be replaced with either twin-linked Plasma Cannons or a pair of twin-linked Lascannons.

Stormravens belonging to the Dawn Angels Legion replace their Stormstrike Missiles with their Dawnstrike Missiles, and the Silver Knights replace them with their Mindstrike Missiles.

All Stormraven gunships are equipped with armored ceramite plating and can be further upgraded with a Searchlight, Extra Armour Plating, and a locator beacon.

The Stormravens employed by the Silver Knights are equipped with Aegis armor plating. This enhances the craft’s protection against the psychic assaults of daemons and other Warp entities by inscribing protective inscriptions onto the aircraft’s surface.

Silver Knight Stormravens may be further enhanced with Warp Stabilization Fields, Truesilver Armour plating, a Teleport Homer, and their Heavy Bolters may be loaded with Psybolt Ammunition.

Wargear
A standard Stormraven Gunship is armed and equipped with:

Twin-linked Assault Cannons
Twin-linked Heavy Bolters
Stormstrike Missile Launcher
Armoured Ceramite Plating
Machine Spirit (artificial intelligence)
A Stormraven Gunship may replace its hull turret-mounted twin-linked Assault Cannons with any of the following:

Twin-linked Plasma Cannons
Twin-linked Lascannons
A Stormraven Gunship may replace its hull-mounted twin-linked Heavy Bolters with any of the following:

Twin-linked Multi-Meltas
Typhoon Missile Launcher
A Stormraven Gunship may replace its side access doors with any of the following:

Hurricane Bolters
A Stormraven Gunship armed with a Typhoon Missile Launcher may be equipped with the following missiles:

Frag Missiles
Krak Missiles
A Stormraven Gunship may take the following vehicle equipment:

Searchlight
Extra Armour Plating

Locator Beacon

model by robertmuggeridge